At Kidscreen earlier this year, I head a Warner Bro. Exec say "when you pitch us your idea, make sure you have funding too." Enter Bejuba Entertainment, the go-between between the creators and the studios. We are having this insightful chat as many creators head to MIPCOM 2024 in Cannes, France looking for distribution, and where networks attend to find programming.

Bejuba! Entertainment is a leading executive production and distribution company representing producers from around the world to bring top quality children's entertainment properties to the global marketplace. Bejuba! specializes in distribution, rights management, co-productions, financing (closing-gap financing) third-party acquisitions, licensing and merchandising, in Canada, the U.S. and internationally. The company maintains a growing catalogue of award-winning children's and family oriented animated and live-action programs.At Kidscreen earlier this year, I heard a Warner Bro. Exec say "pitch us your idea but also make sure you have funding too." Enter Bejuba Entertainment, they are the go-between between the studios and the creators.

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TATIANA KOBER

Tatiana started Bejuba! Entertainment 21 years ago to specialize in the executive production, financing and distribution of quality children’s and family entertainment across all platforms. The company specializes in coproduction, financing and sales. Tatiana believes creatives come first and believes in keeping as much IP ownership in the hands of creators. A Canadian and German citizen, Bejuba! is proudly Canadian. The company’s catalogue holds over 1000 half hours, with over 60 IP’s like “Wishfart” “Ruff-Ruff, Tweet and Dave”, “Jeremy and Jazzy”, “The Hive” and “Big Block SingSong”. The company has a number of series in development as well. Bejuba! has been nominated several times, including in 2024, in the Kidscreen Hot 50 as one of the top distribution companies. Bejuba! is a robust boutique which cherry picks its shows for originality, story and relatability to kids. Many of the series are award winning. 

Tatiana is often called upon to speak at conferences around the world and is a National Associate member of the US Children's Programming group at the US Television Academy as well as at the Canadian Academy. 

Prior to Bejuba!, Tatiana was Managing Director of distributor Egmont Imagination UK where she built the company from scratch for mother ship, Egmont Imagination in Denmark, a subsidiary of the European publishing giant. She held positions at BBCWW (German Sales Manager (fiction) and Children’s genre specialist, where, at the time, she secured the largest UK drama sale in the history of UK television. She oversaw the rollout of “Teletubbies” in Germany. She also worked at Endemol UK as the children’s sales manager, and as a consultant for National Geographic Kids in America. 

Tatiana started focusing on the business side of television when she left Canada to work in Tokyo for NHK Japan in the Hi Definition coproduction department. There she worked with the team to develop documentary co-productions. Tatiana studied at the prestigious Toronto Metropolitan University (Ryerson) and received a BAA, Bachelor of Applied Arts, in Radio and Television Arts. Upon graduating, she held various positions at public broadcaster, TVO in Canada, where she worked for 6 years in the Children’s, Science and Current Affairs departments, moving from production coordinator to production assistant to associate producer and director.